Latest Artist in Residence
skin to sky: radical play as resistance exhibit opening & closing
Opening Wednesday, December 3
Closing Saturday, December 13, with a celebration from 3–5PM
Open hours: Wed-Sat, 10AM–5PM
FCCW: 3053 Rosslyn St. LA CA 90065
Info on our space here
Free
It brings us great joy to invite you to see the culminating exhibit of Silvi Naçi’s residency in the FCCW space! skin to sky: radical play as resistance opens at FCCW starting on Wednesday, December 3, Wed-Sat, 10AM–5PM. Gather with us Saturday, December 13, from 3–5PM for a closing celebration of the show with drinks & snacks!
Throughout their residency, Silvi has woven together their academic practice, focused on body, archive, translation, care, and queer/feminist resistance, with their many art practices, from photography to beading, to elicit entry/departure into playful, new ways to interact, collaborate, and co-create.
Installed for your viewing pleasure are three large-scale beaded cyanotypes that Silvi made with their body in their homeland Albania, at a residency in Kumasi, Ghana, and at a residency in Portugal. The creation of these large-scale works inspired the Co-authoring Cyanotypes program they did at FCCW with queer people of color, their bodies and mementos. The Queering Kites workshop was an opportunity to turn these cyanotypes into kites that fly. These beautiful kites, which are also installed as part of the exhibit, embody the skin to sky ethos and Silvi’s hope, that through collaboration and play, we find the translations, transformations, and portals toward liberation.
About FCCW’s Artist In Residence Program
FCCW’s Artists-in-Residence is a multidisciplinary program that presents new work by women, trans, and nonbinary artists. The program takes the shape of a three-month residency within the organization, where artists are provided with the structural and material support, as well as dedicated time from all FCCW staff. Residencies culminate in an exhibition (or other form of public presentation) and a series of public programs developed with the artist that provide insight into their process and influences.
Artists are selected through an invitation process led by our programming director, Mandy Harris Williams. We are most invested in artists that engage contemporary, intersectional feminist topics and ways of working. Most artist residents are local to Los Angeles County, or have a significant connection to the place, culture, or context of Southern California. Additionally, we prioritize work that has components of social activation and community engagement. In
general, throughout all avenues of our work, we are attempting to confront what bell hooks called “white-supremecist capitalist patriarchy.” For us this means prioritizing artists who are marginalized by this system, including women, trans and nonbinary artists, queer artists, artists of color, and those with disabilities, as well as more invisible marginalizations around, for example, chronic illness, trauma, class and/or immigration/citizenship status.
Between immersive multimedia installations, alternative co-learning frameworks, and collaborative performances, projects have probed wide-ranging issues from prison abolition and third-culture identity, to parental labor and familial lines across diasporic experiences.
Past Residents
- LYLEX 1.0 by PHILTH HAUS
- Cassandra Press
- Letter from the Etui
- Ahree Lee
- Adee Roberson
- gloria galvez
- Sarita Dougherty
- Yasmine Diaz
- iris yirei hu
- Moozies
- Intersectionality Now
- Small Fries, Full Lives
- Carol Zou
- Void of Course
- Aryana Ghazi-Hessami
- Allison Conner